Guest guest Posted August 2, 2006 Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 Boycott China and call their embassy in Washington, DC: Embassy operator: (202) 328-2500/01/02 China kills 50,000 dogs after rabies outbreak THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SHANGHAI, China -- China killed 50,000 dogs in a government-ordered move after three people died of rabies. The operation sparked unusually pointed criticism in state media Tuesday and an outcry from animal-rights activists. Some health experts said the brutal policy pointed to deep weaknesses in the health-care infrastructure in China, where only 3 percent of dogs are vaccinated against rabies and more than 2,000 people die of the disease each year. The five-day slaughter in Mouding county in Yunnan province in southwestern China ended Sunday and spared only military guard dogs and police canine units, state media reported. Dogs being walked were seized from their owners and beaten to death on the spot, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported. Led by the county police chief, killing teams entered villages at night creating noise to get dogs barking, then beat the animals to death, the reports said. Owners were offered 63 cents per animal to kill their own dogs before the teams were sent in, they said. The killings were widely discussed on the Internet, with both legal scholars and animal-rights activists criticizing them as crude and cold-blooded. The World Health Organization said more emphasis needed to be placed on rabies prevention. The official newspaper Legal Daily blasted the killings as an "extraordinarily crude, cold-blooded and lazy way for the government to deal with epidemic disease." August 02. 2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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